Ha, the XMPP idea really appeals to me, endless possibilities :D

Thanks for sharing.


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
Hey Peter,

I also do appointments with orgmode.. I have it hooked up so that it
sends me messages via XMPP/Jabber.  Possibly useful to you:

http://dustycloud.org/blog/2010/11/21/emacs-appointment-notifications-via-xmpp

pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster) writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to be notified[1], when a todo item enters the warning
> period, scheduled time, or deadline.
>
> I can imagine writing a function, that executes every 5 minutes, that
> scans all agenda files calling `org-get-[scheduled,deadline]-time', but
> I hope, that there is already something, that I can use more easily.
>
> TIA for any help,
> Peter
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  For notifying, I'll use an external program, for example
> "notify-send", because the emacs window is not always visible.